On 7/18/05, James Sun jamjazzy@gmail.com wrote:

I just set up dovecot on fedora core 3 with only pop3s protocol enabled. On my client machine, I use fetchmail to get the mail and then go through procmail and eventually ready by mutt.

Everything seems to work fine, except that all new emails are marked old unread emails (i.e., marked with 'O' flag instead of 'N'). This is annoying because some open source lists are so large that I really rely on the "N" flag to read my emails.

I tested the same client setting with gmail and my isp (comcast) pop3 accounts. They work fine - new mails are marked as "N". This makes me suspect dovecot is not set up correctly or something on the pop3 server machine is not right.

Anybody has an idea?

Thanks in advance.

Jun

Here are more detailed info:

-bash-3.00# rpm -qa | grep dovecot dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3

/etc/dovecot.conf:

protocols = pop3s imap_listen = [::] pop3_listen = [::] imaps_listen = [::] pop3s_listen = [::] ssl_cert_file = /usr/share/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem ssl_key_file = /usr/share/ssl/private/dovecot.pem login_dir = /var/run/dovecot-login login = imap login = pop3 mbox_locks = fcntl auth = default auth_mechanisms = plain auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root auth_verbose = no

.fetchmailrc on client machine

poll mypop.server.com protocol pop3 user "jsun" password "xxxx" is jsun here ssl

OK I dug further and seeming got closer to the root of the problem.

I tried to fetchmail directly to bsmtp file (--bsmtp <filename>) and found out that the mail already has "Status: O" line, apparently injected by dovecot or by fetchmail. Since I put "no rewrite" to .fetchmailrc, it is very likely dovecot injected "Status: O" to the mail instead of fetchmail.

Does anybody know if this is the *expected* behavior that dovecot inject "Status: O" line to every mail it delivers? Note in all my tests the orginal mails are put under the regular /var/spool/mail/<user> file. I did not do any preprocessing etc. I verified that right before dovecot delivers these email, there is no "Status: O" line in the mail file.

Thanks in advance.

Jun